We're still working on the 11gR2 certification with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. You're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available. Prerequisites

Hahaha - and to think I just built up new development instances with 11.1.0.7 64-bit and gave them to the testers just earlier this week!

Oh well. One question - you wrote "All other 11gR2 11.2.0.1 database options are supported for use with Apps 11i." I realize AMM is not a 11.2.0.1 specific database option, but I'm unclear if it is supported.

Previously someone asked in your blog comments about if AMM was supported with 11g / E-biz 11i and you said that was still being tested. Is that still the case? I ask because I'm unsure - over the past year I've opened one or two SRs on it and was told it was supported and had planned on putting that into our 11.1.0.7 instance only to then see your comments that it wasn't yet supported.

That's very good news. It looks like the certification came a bit faster compared to the previous version combinations.
We will be upgrading our EBS in the February.
I hope by that time, the certification will be available for Solaris, which is our platform.

Steven,
Our upgrade plans were derailed when we saw that 11gR2 is not certified with Applications Desktop Integrator (ADI). Are there plans to certify ADI with 11gR2? If so is the certification being actively tested?

Yes, our ADI team is planning on certifying their product on the 11gR2 database. They are still working on their 11gR1 (11.1.0.7) certification of ADI, though. I expect that they'll begin their 11gR2 certification as soon as the 11gR1 certification is completed.

Our Applications Platforms Group is still working on certifying the 11gR2 Solaris port with the E-Business Suite. They'll release interoperability documentation and any necessary interop patches as soon as this certification is completed.

Oracle's Revenue Recognition rules prohibit us from discussing certification and release dates, but you're welcome to monitor or subscribe to my E-Business Suite Technology Stack blog (http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan) for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available.

I'm not having much luck using the new Certify functionality in metalink.

Might I suggest that Metalink Note: 881505.1 clarify that it only applies to Linux at present? I have already been told in an SR that since there are no Solaris 64bit variants of the one-off patches listed in this document that we don't need to apply any and its ok to proceed with the upgrade.

Thanks for letting us know about this. We're getting Certify updated right now. In parallel, to ensure that there's no question about what's currently supported, our Applications Platforms Group will ensure that the Note is updated with the following information:

Not yet; this particular certification is still forthcoming. Oracle's Revenue Recognition rules prohibit us from discussing certification and release dates, but you're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available.

Sorry for the delay in responding to this; your question got waylaid in our Platforms Group's backlog. They stated:

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This is not really a split tier configuration in the sense of a 'database tier only' certification of certain platforms. Both of the platforms in (a) below are fully certified EBS Platforms as well as for 11gR2, and users are free to mix these certified platforms on the app and db tiers as they wish.. RAC as noted in your blog article is covered on the database tier as well by this announcement, irrespective of the app tier platform.
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As you see, the patch 6328363 is 11GR1 APPS INTEROPERABILITY PATCH and I wonder if there's another Apps Interop Patch for 11GR2. Appreciate if you can provide us on the upgrade documentation for the upgrade.

We're working on this right now. Oracle's Revenue Recognition rules prohibit us from discussing certification and release dates, but you're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available.

I'm sorry to hear that you've encountered an issue with your 11gR2 upgrade. I haven't encountered this myself, but that's not surprising. I don't get many opportunities to do database upgrades nowadays.

I'd like to get someone to help you investigate this. Please to log a formal Service Request via My Oracle Support (formerly Metalink) to get one of our ATG upgrade specialists engaged.

Please feel free to forward your Service Request number to me if it gets stuck in the support process for some reason.

Hi Steven,
ERP:11.5.10.2/9iR2 OS: Windows 2003
I am facing an error after upgrading 11i Ebiz suite database 9iR2 to 11gR2 , iam trying to run autoconfig for the first time after upgrading to 11gR2 but it fails with following message in logfile

txkcreateACL.cmd exiting with status 3

.end std out.

.end err out.
****************************************************

[AutoConfig Error Report]
The following report lists errors AutoConfig encountered during each
phase of its execution. Errors are grouped by directory and phase.
The report format is:

I'm sorry that you've encountered an issue with this. Your best bet would be to log a formal Service Request via My Oracle Support (formerly Metalink) to get one of our ATG upgrade specialists engaged.

Please feel free to forward your Service Request number to me if it gets stuck in the support process for some reason.

I would like to upgrade Application to R12.1.1 , This release ships database 11gR1 , So when we execute Rapid Install for upgrade we will select
create upgrade file system and rest all the prompts and its installing database 11gR1 but we are already at 11gR2 ,

1)how to avoid the installation of 11gR1 or after the installation we have to remove 11gR1 manually which we dont need as we are already at 11gR2

I hope you understand my concern.
appreciate your advice on this issue.

We're still working on our E-Business Suite + 11.2.0.2 certification for all platforms.

Oracle's Revenue Recognition rules prohibit us from discussing certification and release dates, but you're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available.

Hello Steven,
Thanks for so many good updates on this page.
We plan to upgrade the database of E-Business Suite11i (Solaris 10).
I want to ask a general question - are there some documents which talks about the general issues some one might face due to upgrade to 11 G R2 and what are the preventive measures one should take.
what are the benefits of upgrading to 11g2 specifically for Oracle E-Buiness Suit 11i.
Thanks

Hello, Ajeet,
All of the EBS-related issues associated with upgrading to 11gR2 are documented in the upgrade Notes listed above. This is a straightforward upgrade, and all of the required interoperability patches for the E-Business Suite are listed in the documentation.
As for benefits for upgrading to 11gR2: In my opinion, the biggest technical benefit available today is the ability to use the latest Advanced Compression database option. See: http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/new_whitepaper_advanced_compression_11gr1_benchmar
Other technical benefits of 11gR2 are listed here: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/enterprise-edition/index.html
Regards,
Steven

Is oracle 11gR2 compatible with Windows 2008 R2 Server 64 bit Virtual machine. I tried to install it but i have an error,
"The jave Runtime Environment was not found at bin/Javaw.exe"
"Hence the Oracle Universal Installer cannot be Run"

I tried to install Java JDK also JRE ( tried different versions of it 1.3.1 or higher) but no use.

This article described procedure in migrate 11i with database version 10gR2 from one platform to another platform with different endian format. Is this applicable to 11i with 11gR2 database as well.

We are running 11i (11.5.10.2 CU2) on Solaris with 11gR2 and want to migrate db tier only to Linux platform. Transportable database is not supported due to endian format difference. We don't really want to use datadump because the size of the database is 1.5T. We believe XTTS is a viable solution, however we couldn't find any documentation that this is supported for 11i with 11gR2 database. The closest one we found is doc 454574.1, but that for 10gR2. Can you please clarify if we can follow doc 454574.1 for 11gR2 database.

This blog is dedicated to the E-Business Suite. I'm afraid that we don't have any visibility into Siebel certifications here. Your best bet would be to post your question on a Siebel blog or forum, or failing that, to log a formal Service Request with Oracle Support to get a Siebel specialist engaged.

This note includes mandatory and optional patches for E-Business Suite Release 11i and additional patches for 11.2.0.3.

b)
Generally speaking, you should not experience issues with E-Business Suite Release 11i when upgrading to database 11gR2; however, we recommend that you execute your company's test plan in the upgraded environment.

Please note, this blog is meant to provide technical direction, strategy and certificaiton announcements. The use of the Oracle Forums and Oracle Support are the best methods for technical assitance. If you continue to have issues with the installation of software or the application of a patch, please use the Oracle Community Forums or log a service request with Oracle Support.